It’s been an exciting life for Ursula Pickle, traveling coast to coast by flatbed trailer, but now the hippo just wants to relax where the waves caress North Carolina sand, her owner says. The move is ...

Thanks to years of campaigning by wildlife conservation groups, it’s widely known that Africa’s elephants and rhinos are threatened by the trade in their valuable tusks and horns. Laws and regulations ...

Residents of a town in north-western Nigeria are celebrating after a rare but feared hippo - along with its calf - was killed by rice farmers and fishermen in a hunt lasting several weeks. People in ...

* Protests push Colombia to end hunt for drug-lord's hippo * Beer company to help relocate wild hippo and her calf By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, July 15 (Reuters) - Colombia has called off the hunt to ...